On 31/12/09 14:42, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:

just wondering. afaik tools such as yaourt, when you search a package, they will search for http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=<packagename> and parse the output, right?

wouldn't it make sense to have a daily crontab on the aur server that generates a file which contains all packages (maybe along with their description) ? then users can do local searches instead.

Dieter

Most if not all the others use http://aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php. The local search would be nice though.

On 31/12/2009, at 10:46 PM, Nathan Wayde wrote:

On 31/12/09 14:42, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:

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just wondering. afaik tools such as yaourt, when you search a package, they will search for http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=<packagename> and parse the output, right?

wouldn't it make sense to have a daily crontab on the aur server that generates a file which contains all packages (maybe along with their description) ? then users can do local searches instead.

Dieter

Most if not all the others use http://aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php. The local search would be nice though.

It would make more sense to expand upon the RPC and use a client which caches. Initially any queries might be slower, but the second time they would be just as fast, without the overhead of downloading _all_ packages..

On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:46:34 -0500 Daenyth Blank wrote:

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:22, Sebastian Nowicki wrote:

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It would make more sense to expand upon the RPC and use a client which caches. Initially any queries might be slower, but the second time they would be just as fast, without the overhead of downloading _all_ packages..

+1

wtf was i thinking 20k packages, say 100 bytes each -> 2GB of metadata caching would be a much better idea indeed! and initial queries wouldn't be noticeably slower. writing a few hundred bytes to a filesystem is nothing compared to doing http requests. i guess most is said now, we should just get in touch with the guys who develop our favorite aur frontends. /me off to celebrate 2k10 Dieter